Across
- 5. – Kennedy’s domestic reform program.
- 10. – Symbol of division between East and West during the Cold War.
- 13. – Hoover’s belief in minimal government interference.
- 14. – US policy to contain communism.
- 15. – Soviet attempt to cut off West Berlin in 1948.
- 17. – WWI veterans who demanded early pension payments in 1932.
- 18. – Shantytowns built by the homeless during the Depression.
- 20. – Johnson’s plan to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.
- 21. – 1964 law banning segregation and discrimination.
Down
- 1. – Widespread prosperity in post-war America.
- 2. – Youth movement opposing traditional norms in the 1960s.
- 3. – Hoover’s idea that people should help themselves.
- 4. – Belief that if one country fell to communism, others would follow.
- 6. – 1929 financial collapse that triggered the Great Depression.
- 7. – Protest sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest.
- 8. – 1991 conflict where the US led a coalition to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- 9. – Roosevelt’s program to tackle the Depression through relief, recovery, and reform.
- 11. – Cultural divide between young people and their parents.
- 12. – Scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation.
- 16. – Nixon’s re-election committee involved in Watergate.
- 19. – 1965 law protecting Black Americans’ right to vote.